is there a simple way to fire an event using groovy script?

[Bartek Zukowski]

Hi,

is there a simple way to fire an issue event using Script Runner Escalation Service by giving event's ID? I only managed to find some old examples with deprecated methods that can't be used in latest versions of JIRA and Script Runner.

In my case I just want to fire one of the defined events to catch it by listener so I can send a custom e-mail to some reporters.

I suspect I should use something like EventPublisher.publish(some_event) but how to assign some_event variable with existing event's ID?

An example would be much appreciated.

[Bartek Zukowski · Accepted solution]

Finally I've used following code. Maybe someone finds it useful in the future.

import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEventBundle
import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEventManager
import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEventBundleFactory
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent
 
Long EVENT_ID = new Long("10500")
def issueManager = ComponentAccessor.getIssueManager()
def user = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByName('user_worker')
 
IssueEventManager issueEventM = ComponentAccessor.getIssueEventManager()
IssueEventBundleFactory issueEventFactory = (IssueEventBundleFactory) ComponentAccessor.getComponent(IssueEventBundleFactory.class)
 
IssueEventBundle eventBundle = issueEventFactory.wrapInBundle(new IssueEvent (issue, null, user, EVENT_ID, true))
issueEventM.dispatchEvent(eventBundle)

[Mathieu de Lafond]

Well, I sure did ! 

I couldn't find any proper implementation of the EventBundle thing. Thanks a lot for this code, I got my events working fine again.

And thumbs up for all people who post their code once they found a solution 

[Adam White]

I tried using your code but I got an error:  

Error
Could not find matching constructor for: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent(com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl, null, com.atlassian.jira.user.DelegatingApplicationUser, java.lang.Long, java.lang.Boolean)
groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Could not find matching constructor for: com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent(com.atlassian.jira.issue.IssueImpl, null, com.atlassian.jira.user.DelegatingApplicationUser, java.lang.Long, java.lang.Boolean)
at Script181.run(Script181.groovy:14)

Looks like it doesn't like this line: 

IssueEventBundle eventBundle = issueEventFactory.wrapInBundle(new IssueEvent (issue, null, user, EVENT_ID, true))

any ideas?

[Bartek Zukowski]

This script still works without any problems in our instance. Make sure that you haven't missed any part of the script... or maybe you are using some old version of Script Runner and/or Jira. We are currently running Script Runner 4.3.15 and JIRA 7.2.1.

[Adam White]

My guess is that it is because we are on JIRA 6.4.11 and 6.4 doesnt support that method... any idea how to make it backwards compatible? 

[Bartek Zukowski]

Sorry, but I'm not that advanced in groovy. For me it seems that all the necessary elements are available in 6.4:

• IssueEventBundleFactory is
• wrapInBundle() also
• even constructor for IssueEvent looks the same

[Kevin Draai]

@Adam White I don't know if you figured it out but for JIRA 6.4.1 API, make sure that the parameters you pass matches the class constructor signature. 

https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/6.4.1/com/atlassian/jira/event/issue/IssueEvent.html

[Bartek Zukowski]

Hi Adam,

My client wants to set a reminder for reporters to close resolved issues, once a day until they finally close those issues. So the escalation firing an event that is later caught by listener to send a custom e-mail seems like a good option.

I wanted to use Jira Automation plugin to fire an event, but it cannot fire an event properly (at least such an event couldn't be processed by listener because it lacks some parameters).

I want to use events to avoid updating the issue in the history but I just realized that it might be a wrong assumption. Can I successfully fire an event without updating an issue? I mean without changing "updated date"?

Regards,

Bartek

P.S. I tried to use your suggestion and wrote something like this:

import com.atlassian.event.api.EventPublisher
import com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent
import com.atlassian.jira.component.ComponentAccessor
def user = ComponentAccessor.getUserManager().getUserByName('bzukowski')

EventPublisher.publish(new IssueEvent(issue,user,null,null,null,null,10500))

but it doesn't seem to be working and I am only getting:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: static 
com.atlassian.event.api.EventPublisher.publish() is applicable for 
argument types: (com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent) values: 
[com.atlassian.jira.event.issue.IssueEvent@65039afe[issue=ZUKU-1,comment=<null>,worklog=<null>,changelog=<null>,eventTypeId=10500,sendMail=true,params={},subtasksUpdated=false]]

	at Script281.run(Script281.groovy:7)

Probably it's something obvious but not for me

[adammarkham]

Do you want to send an email every time the escalation service is run or only when an issue has been updated via the escalation service? Sure you can use:

eventPublisher.publish(new IssueEvent(...));

But i'm not sure if this is a good solution to your problem.